OUR OPINION: Standard-Times applauds

SAN ANGELO, Texas - * Billy Bob Galbreath, with the Texas Department of Transportation San Angelo District, who has been named the 2014 Routine Airport Maintenance Program Coordinator of the Year.

* Christopher A. Hernandez, Thomas Horsley, Kimberly R. Nowell, Suzanne M. Dusek and Joe Duerksen, who have been named outstanding graduate students at Angelo State University.

* Sean Motl, who has been named recipient of ASU’s 2014 Presidential Award as the top graduate in his class. Receiving Distinguished Student Awards are Adrienna Bingham, Ashley Tanner, Maxwell Kennady, Nelson Thomas and Marisa Henderson.

* Chris Ellery, an English professor at ASU, who won the second annual Alexander and Dora Raynes Poetry Competition administered by Jewish Currents magazine.